The phrase "ancestor from" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a person's lineage or heritage, specifically in reference to a previous generation or earlier relative. Example: "My great-grandmother was an ancestor from Ireland, which is where our family's roots originate."
Each is a clean and lean interpretation of its ancestor from the muscle-car era.
And like its eminent ancestor, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," it doesn't just lie there and symbolize something.
It is generally agreed that the two orders had a common ancestor from which they may have evolved.
Certainly, the idea that we have a common ancestor from Africa will induce nosebleeds in racists who have made such distinctions the basis for discrimination.
Carbone, M. et al. Combined genetic and genealogic studies uncover a large BAP1 cancer syndrome kindred tracing back nine generations to a common ancestor from the 1700s.
Instead, they share a very ancient common ancestor from Eurasia, X2. (Here is a detailed discussion of the evolution of these haplogroups for anyone interested).
Hope of reconstructing the ancestor from its inferred genes received new impetus three years ago, when the first full DNA, or genome, of a bacterium was decoded.
The Californian scientists said other research suggests everyone alive in the world today shares a common ancestor from sometime in the past 3,500 years.
Judging by the few fossils dated at six million years or more, they said it would probably be hard to distinguish the common ancestor from just another ape.
Denis Iliin, the ancestor from whom the Denissoffs trace their descent, left his home in Novgorod because of religious persecution during the reign of Alexis (1645-1676) and settled in Five Huts, a village in the Don region.
While I was being teased by the production team one of them informed me that it was a more important find than Lucy, our upright direct ancestor from 3 million years ago.
